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Ask HN: How do you reduce unsolicited phone calls?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you reduce unsolicited phone calls?

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>If it's someone who needs me, they'll leave a voicemail Then the next step is for spammers to leave voicemails

Ugh, you're right. The political robo-calls have already started doing that to me, I keep getting calls from the Orrin Hatch campaign. If it starts happening with all of them, I'm going to resort to whitelist only. Auto-block all unknown numbers.

I made the mistake of donating during the presidential election and now I get loads. It's especially problematic since each Senator/Rep has a separate opt out list - every time I tell one to stop a week later a different campaign is hitting me up.

Re: Ask HN: How do you reduce unsolicited phone calls?

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Most of the calls I receive are from human callers. So when they call and it's not for me or I'm not interested in their services, I'll just keep the phone aside and let the person talk for a while. Within a few seconds, he realises there is no sound from the other side. He does "hello, hello" multiple times and hungs up. Calls again. Again, "hello hello; Are you able to hear me?". This is very frustrating for the caller and he never calls me back or most of the time, they delete my number from the databse.
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